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Life sentences for juveniles
The US Supreme Court has just agreed to take up the issue as to whether juveniles can be sentenced to life without parole (LWOP). The issue relates to a 2004 case, Roper v. Simmons, in which the Cour… more →
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Life sentences for juveniles
ac524 wrote 6 months ago: The US Supreme Court has just agreed to take up the issue as to whether juveniles can be sentenced t … more →
Isolation in Confinement
ac524 wrote 8 months ago: The New Yorker recently published an article by Atul Gawande, the surgeon and writer, about the phen … more →
Kids jailed for Cash on 20/20
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ac524 wrote 8 months ago: 20/20 aired a special on Friday night about the Judges who jailed young people in exchange for money … more →
Take Action in New York State
ac524 wrote 8 months ago: The Governor of New York is currently considering his budget, and there is an opportunity to re-dire … more →
Resource
ac524 wrote 11 months ago: The Campaign for Youth Justice, an advocacy organization based in Washington, DC, has published an e … more →
Malign neglect on Rikers Island
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ac524 wrote 1 year ago: A small story was published in the New York Daily News last week which I’m sure went unnoticed … more →
UN report on violence against children in institutions
ac524 wrote 1 year ago: The UN has produced an excellent report on violence against children in institutions (both punitive … more →
Palestinian children in detention
ac524 wrote 1 year ago: From B’Tselem: 7 Sept. 2008: 13 minors, two of them girls, being held in administrative detent … more →
Resource
ac524 wrote 1 year ago: The Justice Policy Institute has issued an excellent report about the conditions of confinement in j … more →
Juvenile Justice in Africa
ac524 wrote 1 year ago: I’ve recently been interested in exploring the tensions between the enactment in 1989 of the U … more →
Resource
ac524 wrote 1 year ago: When I worked in New York City as a social worker, I represented a young woman who suffered from ser … more →
True Notebooks: A Writer's Year in Juvenile Hall
ac524 wrote 1 year ago: I just finished this fantastic book by the writer Mark Salzman. In it, he describes his year spent t … more →
Resource
ac524 wrote 1 year ago: The following is testimony from the Children’s Rights Alliance for England and the National So … more →
The Architecture of Incarceration
ac524 wrote 1 year ago: I’ve been thinking a lot lately about the architecture of juvenile institutions, primarily bec … more →
